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Yes, that's definitely what it's about and what you've described is classic hypercorrection showing that the speaker is using a variety she/he's not comfortable with, which leads to the conclusion that David Cameron is not using his first language when speaking here. There's good experimental evidence about the different responses to 'I and David' etc. Even stronger evidence that the 'David and I' 'rule' is unnatural in some way is that 'David and we' and 'David and he' are less acceptable than 'David and I'. Will post more references later (off to teach now) B--)
tidying up David Cameron's speech
I noticed a classic 'standard English' error in David Cameron's speech at the Conservative Party conference recently. He said: 'Let me tell you about Michael Gove and I' I decided to check the transcript and found it online here: Independent 10 October 2012 — David Cameron conference transcri...
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